The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1887-02-25
SOUTHERN oLEANlNGs.

was kneeling in prayer.
Tobe and Sam jackson escaped from
the Barlow County tGa.) Jail few nights
ago. Tobe had been taken from the con-
Vict camp to testify against his brother
and the latter had been convicted,
The Tennessee House of Represen tatives
has passed the prohi bitiou resolution, the
vote being 81 to f. The resolution had
previously passed the Senate.
James McElroy, the negro who was
convicted several weeks ago Of the MUIR
der of Walter Mort in September last, was
sentenced at Henderson, KY, by Judge
Gavens to be hanged on May 13.
The people of Augusta, Ga, are moving
to rebuild the magnificent opera-house re-
Gently burned A su Inscription list to
build a splendid hotel on the site Of the old
Globe Hotel has been started.
The wife of G. Y. Severon, a travelling
photographer, committed suicide at Wolf
City, Tex, few days ago. The cause
was family troubles. She took some
chemical preparation from dark room.
Major J. s. Penn, proprietor and
manager of the Laredo (Tex.) Times, was
recently adjudged violently insane Two
years ago he had a severe attack of Rio
Grande fever, from which he never fully
recovered. He is a brother-in-law Of ex-
Governor Ireland.
Mrs. D. P Hathaway was, q few days
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deputy commissioner Of the Chancery
Court at Louisville Ky. The lady quail
lifted at once, Deputy Clerk John g.
Walker administering the oath of office
Mrs. Hathaway is an expert enOgrapher,
and has the distinction of being the only
woman commissioner ever holding o flee
in Kentucky.
A negro named Thomas Gay was re-
Gently arrested by an Atlanta (Ga.l police
officer, and the discovery was made that
in a hamper basket which he carried on
his arm from room to room and house to
house, was a complete saloon. on a small
scale. The officer found the liquors to be
of the best grade. Ths negro it is said,
was making a neat little income from his
novel outfit.
The defalcation Of Treasurer Joseph of
the Texas Grand Lodge Of Odd-Fellows
seems to embrace all the funds of the Or
der he could lay his hands on.
The Goodwin murder trial at Memphis
resulted in a verdict of not guilty, and
Goodwin was DISCHARGED.
The Tennessee Midland railroad has
been chartered.
The convict system in Georgia will be
antagOnized by a company now being
formed at Atlanta to purchase the fur
naces and mines of Senator Brown.
Dominic Isadore Robot, ex-Prefect
Apostolic of the Indian Territory, died at
Dallas, Tex, few days ago, and his re-
mains were forwarded to McAlbster, L
T., for interment
Seven citizens of Greer County, Tex,
We're arrested and taken to Fort Smith,
Ark, few days ago, and placed under
S35, 600 bond in the Federal Court on
charges of lynching number Of peopl e in
the Indian Territory.
Patrick II. MOnahan, who some months
ago shot and severely wounded Miss Car
--1~ IL,
fused to him, was recently convicted and
awarded ten years in the penitentiary.
MOnahan also shot Mrs. Carney and at
tempted to shoot young man who was
visiting Miss Carney.
DR.. E. B. Way was assassinated at his
home, about twenty miles west of Hell
ena, Ark, recently. The shot was fired
by an unknown party through the win
dow, the discharge, six slugs, taking eff
feet in his heart, killing him instantly
Tho murderer has so far escaped.
Some unknown party shot Din Miles, a
negro, near Smithheld, KY, recently,
while Miles was cutting oats IN barn.
Miles died from his wounds. There is no
olew to the assassin, but it is limited there
Is a woman in the case. The pistol was
fired through a crack in the barn.
At a meeting of gentlemen interested in
the Tennessee Midland railroad at Nash
vile, Tenn, a few days ago, arrange
ments were perfected for the immediate
survey of a ne from Memphis to Bristol.
There is no doubt that the Doad will be
built and that work viii soon be COM
menced.
bert Norton, shipping clerk for a
leading Mem phis CTenn.) shoe house, was
cowhided a few evenings since by a
woman named Grace Turner, who
went into the store where he was at work
and struck him several times across the
face. She claimed that Norton had
beaten her the night before.
A fire broke out in the sweat-room Of
the large brick tobacco factory of David
Dunlap, at Petersb urg, Va, a few nights
ago, and in less than half hour the
whole building, with stock. machinery
and fixtures, was completely consumed.
The loss is fully $3.50, ,OOO, partly covered
by insurance in Northern and foreign
companies.
George W. McKelvev, son Of one Of the
wealthiest and most prominent planters
of Douglas County Ca, twenty miles
from Atlanta, was instantly xii Ol while
coupling cars on the Georgia Pac fic, near
his home. McKelvey, who was quite
young, had become sofnfatUated with rail
road work that his parents, though
wealthy AMI influential, were unable to
keep him of the road
At Mount Carmel, KY, few days ago,
goods in a wagon, a double barreled shot
gun which he was trying to force in tho
wagon breech foremost was accidently
discharged, killing him instantly and
mutilating his body in a shocking manner.
The British ship Shuan, from New Or
leans for Havre, wen ashore in the Gulf
of Mexico a few days p. ., sixty miles west
of Cedar Keys. The cargo consisted Of
5O'4 bales of cotton, and the vessel is in.
sured.
The Lyrohburg Vfrgfafa'a, one of the old
est newsI apers in Virginia, tablished in
1878, las suspe nded publication.
The Dairymen and Fruit-Growers' con.
ventiou met last week in Representatives
Hall at Jackson, Miss, President W. D.
Hoard in the chair. There was animmense
attendance.
Richard R. Owlngs, the well-known
turfman, died a few days ago at Lexing-
ton, KY.
The harbingers of spring are about.
a fire started in the Masonic Hal
Theater at Augusta, Ga. few days ago,
Just after the conclusion of a matinee per-
formance, destroying the theater and sew
eral adjoining buildings, and causing a
loss of $685. 0o; two-thirds covered by in /
surance. Mrs. Bowers company ,ost I
their entire stage wardrobe, valued al /
5000
duel was fought in New Orleans 8
few days ago between Robert Roman, son
of Judge Alfrei Roman. an Sidney L
Theard, son of Hon. Paul E s. Theard. /
The we apons were small swords ThearG
receivet a slight flesh wound in his hand
and the fight was stopped.
A man in Polk Cou7ty, Ga, il living
pleasantly with his eighth wife.
Rev. Max Heller, of Houston, Tex,
graduate of the Hebrew Union College Of
Cincinnati, has been elected rabbi of the
Congregation Temple Sinai Pulpit, at New
which was rendered vacant by